Jack Duckworth in suicide storyline?

I can't quite get my head around Jack Duckworth comitting suicide, but today's News of the World reckons that's what he'll do when he finds out he's got a terminal disease.

The paper says that when Jack finds out he's ill, he asks Connie to help him die.

Jack? Suicide? I don't think so.

He's a battler, surely, and if he doesn't have the strength to battle then he's of that generation who would turn himself over to the NHS lock, stock and barrel in order for them to do the best they can. I hope this Coronation Street 'spoiler' isn't true.